Investment Abuses

[sgmb id=”1″] It looks like the nation’s biggest banks cannot help preying on their own customers, large and small. The latest case involves the esoteric world of securities lending, which is used for short selling and for hedge funds and is an important means of eliminating “failed” transactions. In exchange,

[sgmb id=”1″] The recent news that the worldwide LIBOR interest rate is going to be replaced after years of scandals about it being rigged by some of the world’s largest banks has started a slow-motion earthquake that is going to rattle interest rate lending worldwide. It also is going to

It is widely recognized in the modern world that the earth revolves around the sun. Now, it is time for more investors to understand that the fees charged to manage your mutual funds in a 401(k) and elsewhere all reduce your net investment returns. There is a direct connection: the

For highly-trained and well-compensated financial experts who routinely delve into the outer limits of stochastic calculus, Black Scholes and Finite Difference Method techniques of numerical options pricing, Wall Street does a lousy job of gauging public opinion. Like most people who have to give self-evaluations and

[sgmb id=”1″] This site has never printed an entire news article from another site, but this is a great story about how bond traders lied during the 2007-2008 housing fraud that led to the financial crash. That housing crash was the result of top-down and bottom-up fraud involving realtors, mortgage

[sgmb id=”1″] One neighbor to the north has come up with a way to over-fund their state pension system, so why can’t it be repeated here? Bucking the industry trend, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan announced it was 105% funded as of Jan. 1, 2017, its fourth consecutive year of

[sgmb id=”2″] Want to rig the world’s largest financial market? No problem. At least that is what prosecutors in the U.S. and the UK are saying when it comes to their charges that three of the world’s largest global banks rigged parts of the $5.3 trillion a day foreign exchange

[sgmb id=”2″] It certainly is no surprise that the Trump Administration has declared war on individual investors and will only make it more difficult for millions of Americans to have a financially secure retirement. For millions, there may be no retirement at all or certainly one which will have a

[sgmb id=”2″] When a federal court judge ruled on Feb. 8, 2017 that the U.S. Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule must still stand despite furious protests from the financial services lobby, it did not mean individual investors would automatically be protected from errant financial rep who continue to sell products

[sgmb id=”2″] The Trump administration’s announcement today that it is moving to revoke the individual investor protections is bad news for unsophisticated, individual investors who are having a hard time saving for retirement and making higher return investments. Today’s announcement is the culmination of hundreds of millions of dollars spent

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The financial sector which has the most contact with the investing public–the mutual fund industry–has largely evaded pressures to reform.

This is a serious omission since the $3 trillion mutual fund industry plays a critical role in determining the financial well-being of millions of Americans. The industry’s problems, ranging from conflicts of interest to lack of transparency, affect retirement planning and the ability to build secure financial futures for millions of investors.read more...